This professional resource provides a clear and practical tool for educators, curriculum leaders, and administrators! Highly visual and accessible, it explains the inquiry process and offers practical suggestions and tools for successfully implementing inquiry-based learning in the classroom.

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Jennifer Watt's profile page

Jill Colyer's profile page

Jennifer Watt is an Instructional Leader for Beginning Teachers at the Toronto District School Board. She has been a history, politics, social science, and English teacher, and a consultant and a coordinator for 25 years. Throughout her career, she has supported both new and experienced classroom teachers at all grade levels and subject areas in thinking about how to share their knowledge, experience, and practices to improve student learning and establish professional communities. Jennifer's work with teachers, teacher candidates, and administrators in Canada and internationally has focused on teacher and student identity, the adolescent learner, assessment practices, and how to build more inclusive classroom communities. She is the author of several books for teachers and students, as well as exemplars and curriculum units. Jennifer has a Master's Degree focusing on the assessment of teacher practice.

Jill Colyer is currently the National Coordinator of The Historical Thinking Project, a pan-Canadian history education reform initiative that is working toward the incorporation of historical thinking concepts into curricula, classroom resources, and teacher supports. She works closely with ministries of education in each province and territory, advises educational publishers on resource development, and facilitates professional development workshops for teachers and administrators across the country. Jill has been a teacher and a writer of curriculum materials since 1991. She has taught secondary school students in Canada and Malaysia, and has worked as an instructor in the Continuing Education Department at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. Her work in curriculum development includes the writing of courses, textbooks, teaching guides, and assessment tools. Jill has also been a writer and editor for the CBC since 1996.